United Welfare States of America: In 2011 Nearly Half The Population Received Some Form Of Government Benefit

While politicians may debate whether or not America is the most "generous" (with other generations' money of course) socialist welfare state in the history of mankind, the undoctored numbers make the affirmative case quite clear and without any chance for confusion. The single most disturbing statistic: in 2011 nearly half of the population lived in a household that receives some form of government benefit, which in turn accounted for 65% of total federal spending, or $2.5 trillion, and amount to 15% of GDP. And yet some people out there still think these people, long since indoctrinated to do little but mooch off the welfare state (which will continue subsidizing its existence so long as debt rates are so low that the government can issue trillions each year without fears of consequences) will halt their iTunes purchases, will voluntarily stop subsisting on the government's teat, or will rebel against a government which is their only source of income? Why? Especially since something tells us that there will be a peculiar overlap between this 50% and the 50% of Americans that pay zero taxes.

Of course, this chart should be observed in conjunction with the "What is this?" chart we presented two days ago from Morgan Stanley which pretty much explains everything about the US "economy"

something tells us that there will be a peculiar overlap between this 50% and the 50% of Americans that pay zero taxes.

And that will also overlap with the 50% who vote for Ogolfer. Of course, if he can raise that percentage just a bit before election time comes, then everyone gets 4 more years of Hope, Change....and foodstamps!

Here comes the "Soviet Kiss of Death": the still working 50% of American will stop working shortly with nobody working any more in the United Soviet State of America. Well, the FED will try to keep printing presses running...

Then comes a revolution since people do not like going hungry and government "law-enforcers" going unpaid.

i live in mississipi, and most of the afican americans are on EBT. A large majority have kids knowing they cannot afford the little ones. but the younguns are a pay check. The whites here are also getting the attitude that the govt also needs to take care of them also. It is a disease to culture and personal responsibility. The south has so many issues because of the attitudes of people on assistance. They dont take care of what is afforded to themby the tax payers, and they expect more and more. The issue also raises concerns about the health of these indivuals, i see it daily.They never work, they smoke, drink and take very little care of themselves causing a major burden to the hospitals and the entire healthcare system. They have no innitiative to take care of themselves becausethey know that healthcare is afforded to them. I for an example try to live a healthy lifestyle because I do not want the cost of my healthcare to rise where i am employed at. Untill the system either decays and becomes unsustainable or the govt puts these people to work for what they get it will never be fixed. NO MATTER WHAT!

Those are the same people who "refuse to do the jobs the illegals are doing". I'm as stumped as you. Why aren't they told to work? Slavery guilt perhaps? Can't MAKE them "work the fields". Vote buying, that's all it is, they raise their own voters.

NO ONE PAYS zero taxes! If you are alive you pay taxes! Just because you are without a job doesn't mean you don't pay taxes.Just because all there is, is part time work for near nothing doesn't mean you don't pay taxes. You sound like a hack from the Cock brothers 1% team? So you are a tool of the 1%. I pay more in % taxes than Mitt!

No. It is much more simple. Obama infringes upon our freedoms. By means of introducing various types of regulations he suffocates the economy of this country. He weakens the country and as a result diminishes job opportunities and put more people on needle of dependence on government assistance. For those who try to preserve their assets offshore he makes it more and more difficult to do so.

He grows the country debt preparing the eventual country collapse.

He stops the measures to achieve energy independence. He stops technological advances (like space exploration). He wastes money on projects which make no economic sense to accelerate bunkrupcy. (Salindra, Government motors)

Obama is the worst thing that happened to America. It is not the question that most of us probably need to pay more taxes, it is our freedom (including economic one) that rapidly disappears. Obama ultimate goal is default. He will then introduce the state of emergency, close the borders and become de facto the dictator. Mouth trap will be shut. And then you will see what Marxist paradise really mean. In this respect Ron Paul is absolutely correct. The problem is: he will never be elected.

Give me a break. Obama reads a teleprompter and lives it up. All these evil things have been going on for the last 100 years and progressively gotten worse over time. The idea that it is all Obama in the last couple years is just ridiculous. Lyndon Johnson or FDR were far worse for this country. Obama is just a stooge.

The so-called Progressives (Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, and FDR) were the beginning of the end; Omojo is the end-of-the-end, the icing on the cake. All you have to know is what you are going to do when they come a knockin'. Everything else is academic.

Obama is a convenient and visible target -- that is all. Anyone who can't see past this decoy is quite short-sighted. Rotating the White House shills is the game being played. If you believe that a POTUS can fix any of this, you need to get out more.

"The owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, has suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu consider ordering a Mossad hit team to assassinate U.S. President Barack Obama so that his successor will defend Israel against Iran."

You have more patience than I, had to dump all sec 8, could not handle gov in my business. What a cluster, especially the self important inspectors, great use for a pig farm those guys. Whatever sec 8 is paying is too little for the cost of being attached to a gov teat..

Ol' Alexis?! If he would have conversations in the US nowadays, he would notice that you don't say socialist, planning economy or "liberal" anymore, you say European. Against all facts, but hey, new times beget new swearwords...

Confusing? Just *TRY* to have a normal conversation with my UK and US relatives and you will find out that they think they live in the land of the free and that the eurozone is a socialist overregulated hellhole where half of the population is on some kind of government support.

Peace? Is good, let's hope we'll have some.
Socialism might be dead as a word in Texas, regrettably it's a beast alive and kicking in this world. Was just musing how 1984-like the UKUS political vocabulary is becoming...